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B. G. PARKHURST.

AMMUNITION BOX.

Patented June 6, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD G. PARKHURST, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGN OR TO THE PRATT & WHITNEY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE;

AMMUNITION-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,040, dated June 6, 1882.

- Application filed January 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. PARK- HURST, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certaiu new and useful Improvements in Ammunition-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

My improvement relates to boxes or cases in IS which fixed ammunition is packed for transportation to be used with small-arms, and more particularly with machineguns.

The object of my invention is to provide a case which shall be simple in construction,

light, andinexpensive, and which shall be perfectly tight and water-proof and at the same time readily and easily opened to reach the contents; and my improvement is intended to be adapted to placing the contents of the box in the receiver of a machine-gun in any position quickly and without danger of dropping the cartridges.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 shows a perspective 0 view of the case packed and ready for transportation. Fig. 2 shows a view of the strip which is removed to get at the contents. Fig. 3 is an end view of the box containing the cartridges after the strip shown in Fig. 2 has 5 been removed. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same with the inner box slightly drawn out.

A is an inside box, similar to the lower part of an ordinary pasteboard box, fitted with partitions in any ordinary manner for containing 0 the cartridges.

B is a rectangular piece ofpasteboard bent to form the top and the twolarger sides of the exterior case.

0 is a rectangular piece of pasteboard bent so as to form the bottomand the two ends of the exterior case. When these two parts are placed together they form a complete casing, inclosin g the cartridges and the box A.

D is a strip of cloth pasted or glued upon the interior of the piece C. There may be a thin paper pasted over the inside of the cloth,

if desired, for appearance or to protect the primers from dampness. The ends of the cloth are left loose, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The parts 13 and C are placed together over the box A and the cartridges, and the edges are then secured with a paper covering, E, as shown in Fig. 1. This paper or binding passes over the part C and folds down over the part B, and thus closes all the corners, and it is made suffioientlylarger than C to lap onto the part B, and laps down over a part of the cloth strip D, as shown in Fig. 1. The box is then entirely covered with awater-proof varnish to exclude all moisture and form an air-tight case.

When it is desired to use the cartridges one end of the cloth strip is taken in one hand and the box is held by the other. The hand grasping the strip is passed rapidly around the bottom of the box, which removes the strip and the part 0 at a single movement. If the cartridges are to be used singly, the part B is allowed to fall off and expose the shells. If, however, the ammunition is to be charged in- 7 to the receiver of a machinegun, the box is still held in the hand and the end inserted in the receiver, the part B retaining the shells in whatever position it is required to hold the box in charging. As the cartridges slip into the receiver, the part B is allowed to slip off, as shown in Fig. 4.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination with the box A and contained cartridges, the exterior case'oomposed of the two rectangular pasteboard parts B and C, each bent to form three sides of the box and turned with their open sides toward each other over the cartridges and box A, and the binding E, covering the corners, substantially as de- 0 scribed.

2. In combination with the box or casing composed of two parts arranged respectively to each other as shown, the detaching-strip D, arranged between the two parts of the casing, and having a projecting portion to be grasped by the hand, as and for the purpose described.

EDWARD G. PARKHURS'I.

Witnesses EDWIN F. DIMooK, THEO. G. ELLIs. 

